Dmitri Shostakovich

The complete piano works

The project consists in recording the complete piano music of Dmítri Shostakovich, as published by the latest critical DSCH editions (2015-2020), including several recently discovered pieces which were never recorded before. So far, two volumes have been released by the Italian classical music label Stradivarius. A third volume, which completes the solo works, will be released in early 2025.

Dmitrij Dmitrievic Shostakovich was one of the most influential, praised and widely performed composers of the twentieth century: his unmistakable style has left an indelible mark on the aesthetic taste of the modern listener and on the DNA of the contemporary orchestra. Nevertheless, up to this day, his piano works have been rarely played by performers and listened to by the public, almost obscured by the exceptional nature of his extensive chamber and symphonic production. Considering his outstanding ease of writing and well-proven ability to compose music under all kinds of circumstances – even unfavorable ones –, Shostakovich’s piano production for piano appears relatively small and, above all, sporadic. These pages are not less extraordinary because of that. On the contrary, many of them show a degree of ambition and depth of purpose that are not second to those of his chamber and symphonic masterpieces.